Day One- Begin lesson by introducing dolphins and watching Jonathan Bird’s Webisode about Dolphins http://www.blueworldtv.com/s1_e08.html (approx 15 minutes). Continue with lesson by having children cut out and color in pictures of dolphins http://www.dolphins-world.com/Dolphin_Coloring_Pages.html (approx 20 minutes) End lesson by reading Everything Dolphin: What Kids Really Want to Know about Dolphins by Marty Crisp (approx 15 minutes).
Day Three- Begin lesson by watching a video of dolphin eating fish http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XzZhSl_00pI http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8E8_IAHAD40 (approx 5 minutes) Have kids go three at a time “fishing” for dolphin food (fish and shrimp) in a bucket with magnetic fishing poles, counting out and identifying food (approx 25 minutes) Have children scoop up “dolphin food” with a “net” (napkin). Dolphin food would consist of tuna finger sandwiches, Swedish fish, Goldfish, and pre-baked cookies shaped like fish. (approx 20 minutes)
Begin lesson by introducing dolphins and watching Jonathan Bird’s Webisode about Dolphins http://www.blueworldtv.com/s1_e08.html (approx 15 minutes).
Continue with lesson by having children cut out and color in pictures of dolphins
http://www.dolphins-world.com/Dolphin_Coloring_Pages.html (approx 20 minutes)
End lesson by reading Everything Dolphin: What Kids Really Want to Know about Dolphins by Marty Crisp (approx 15 minutes).
Day Two-
Begin lesson by looking at facts about dolphins and their habitats from NatGeo for Kids
http://kids.nationalgeographic.com/Animals/CreatureFeature/Bottlenose-dolphin (approx 10 minutes)
Continue with lesson by creating Dolphin Habitat Dioramas by cutting out, coloring, and gluing the printables from the website http://www.holdthatthought.com/crafts/Shadow_Box.pdf
The kids will decorate the shoebox with the back ground, colorings, and dolphin figurines (approx 40 minutes)
Day Three-
Begin lesson by watching a video of dolphin eating fish
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XzZhSl_00pI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8E8_IAHAD40 (approx 5 minutes)
Have kids go three at a time “fishing” for dolphin food (fish and shrimp) in a bucket with magnetic fishing poles, counting out and identifying food (approx 25 minutes)
Have children scoop up “dolphin food” with a “net” (napkin). Dolphin food would consist of tuna finger sandwiches, Swedish fish, Goldfish, and pre-baked cookies shaped like fish. (approx 20 minutes)
Day Four-
Begin lesson with a Dolphin related word search
http://www.abcteach.com/free/d/dolphins_wordsearch.pdf (approx 20 minutes)
Show life cycle diagram and have children relate dolphin birth to human birth
http://library.thinkquest.org/J0110164/Life%20of%20the%20dolphin/life%20cycle.htm (approx 15 minutes)
End lesson with children coloring and labeling parts of a dolphin’s anatomy with the words learned in the word search
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/whales/label/labeldolphin.shtml (approx 15 minutes)
Day Five-
Begin lesson with reading Amazing Dolphins! By Sarah L. Thompson (approx 10 minutes)
Have half of the class create a little booklet on all of the information they learned about dolphins with printable dolphins, dolphin anatomy, and fish to decorate
http://www.dolphins-world.com/Dolphin_Coloring_Pages.html
(approx 20 minutes)
Have the other half of the class playing Dolphin games online
http://www.playgames2.com/games/Dolphin
http://www.rawkins.com/games/do/ (approx 20 minutes)